Inspiring Quotes about the Environment, Nature & Trees
A collection of quotes and sayings relating to the environment, nature & trees aimed to inspire. Nature is perceived as sacred & inspiring. Being within powerful nature landscapes slows down one's pace to smell the flowers along the way and take in the breathtaking scenery, regenerating our energy for life with its unpredictable turns. It also dilutes extreme individualism and its inevitable aloneness. Being out in nature for longer periods can be about a journey to a place where disordered, uncontrolled life can have expression because it is held.
Nature can hold you in balance; in its tranquillity and harmony of beingness.
The words "soul" and "spirit," can clearly be felt as we apply the concepts of "merging" and being "at one" with nature.
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Forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet
and the winds long to play with your hair.
~ Kahlil Gibran ~
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Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars... and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.
~ Osho ~
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Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.
~Lao Tzu
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Trees are poems that earth writes upon the sky,
We fell them down and turn them into paper,
That we may record our emptiness.
~ Kahlil Gibran ~
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A human being is part of the whole,
called by us "Universe,"
a part limited in time and space.
He experiences himself, his thoughts and feelings
as something separated from the rest
- a kind of optical delusion of his consciousness.
This delusion is a kind of prison for us,
restricting us to our personal desires and
to affection for a few persons nearest to us.
Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison
by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures
and the whole of nature in its beauty.
~ Albert Einstein, 1950 ~
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The best remedy for those who are afraid, lonely or unhappy is to go outside, somewhere where they can be quiet, alone with the heavens, nature and God. Because only then does one feel that all is as it should be and that God wishes to see people happy, amidst the simple beauty of nature.
~ Anne Frank ~
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Man has been endowed with reason, with the power to create, so that he can add to what he's been given. But up to now he hasn't been a creator, only a destroyer. Forests keep disappearing, rivers dry up, wild life's become extinct, the climate's ruined and the land grows poorer and uglier every day.
~ Anton Chekhov, author ~
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It is the marriage of the soul with Nature that makes the intellect fruitful,
and gives birth to imagination.
~ Henry David Thoreau ~
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I think along the way, as we treat nature as model and mentor, and not as a nuisance to be
evaded or manipulated, we will certainly acquire much more reverence for life than
we seem to be showing right now.
~ Amory Lovins ~
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"The tree which moves some to tears of joy is in the eyes of others only a green thing that stands in the way. Some see Nature all ridicule and deformity, and some scarce see Nature at all. But to the eyes of the man of imagination, Nature is Imagination itself."
~ William Blake ~
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See how nature - trees, flowers, grass - grows in silence; see the stars, the moon
and the sun, how they move in silence...
we need silence to be able to touch souls.
- Mother Teresa
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Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you.
- Frank Lloyd Wright
